THE NIXON SHOCK!

摘要

"Inauguration Day was cloudy, grim," wrote Arthur Burns in his diary on Jan. 20,1969. As he watched President-elect Richard Nixon, Burns-an immigrant from Galicia, the son of a housepainter who had risen to become the foremost expert on U.S. economic cycles and chief economist to Dwight Eisenhower-saw a man with "a look of exaltation about him."